Re: [Banshee-List] Sort Browser by Artists.. Am I Stupid??

[Steve Wilson <steve notdos com>]

On 6/21/2015 8:12 PM, mx4789 wrote:
> I am beating my head against the wall. I know this shouldn't be *this* hard,
> but I want my albums to show up sorted by artists and nothing helps (using
> browser view).  I want all of my REM albums to be under "R" (for REM). Is
> that asking too much? I've googled and searched this forum and something
> that seems so obvious to me seems to be persona non grata as far as I can
> tell. I'm including a screen shot just in case there is any confusion to
> what I'm asking.  Note at the top where "Morissey" is listed first since the
> album title is "!the best of!" and is followed by Matthew Sweet because the
> album title is "100% Fun" - these should be under the "M's"... What am I
> missing? BTW, they are under my Music folders as "Morrisey" and "Matthew
> Sweet" directories. I am ready to scream. This isn't hard..
> <http://banshee-media-player.2283330.n4.nabble.com/file/n4652338/37.png>

You just have "MUSIC" highlighted on the left.  Highlight "ARTIST" and 
the artists should be displayed.  Their albums should be listed 
alphabetically.   I believe that's the default.  You could also use a 
program to check the filetags on each song.  I haven't done that in 
Linux, but MP3TAG does a great job in Windows.  And it's freeware.  And 
despite its name, it sets/displays tags in just about every format.  I 
don't think it does WAV, but it does do FLAC, ALAC, and OGG.  Etc.

I've personally gone back to Clementine.  I like the library display 
MUCH better with Banshee, but I like Visualizations and could never get 
them working with Banshee.  Supposedly it's a simple thing - you just 
need the community extensions installed - but I could never find out 
where to get them.